Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... Item #21378
Lima, Peru: Instituto Andino de Estudios en Poblacion y Desarrollo, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 55 pp, with two foldout diagrams, bibliography. Short (1/2 inch) tears at head and foot of spine; light handling wear; contents clean and sound. Text in Spanish. A study of migration patterns within the nation of..... Item #329
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from..... Item #20752
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Translated by Basil Creighton. 190 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. An as-new copy in a clean dust jacket with slight edgewear. Documents two major expeditions into the jungles between Palenque and Copan on the Yucatan..... Item #13248
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1970. Softcover. Very good. 214 pp. Rubbing to extremities, pages tanned. Binding sound, no markings. Some pages unopened. Item #13921
Gainesville, FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca, with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. (36) pp, stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28..... Item #14777
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. xiii, 328 pp, with illustrations, folding map. Stamped and hand addressed (by author) envelope tipped in on rear free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, offsetting to endpapers; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "R.B. Cunningham..... Item #2901
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Washington, D.C. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. House issue. Two text volumes, with two folding maps, 52 lithograph plates, and many additional illustrations in the text; and two atlas volumes containing five large folding maps, all in very good condition. Original blind-stamped browned cloth, sunned..... Item #20610
[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... Item #20734
London: R.H. Porter, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xvi, 269 + [2], ads, with illustrations, folding map. Original blue cloth. Edges of boards rubbed, mild scuffing to rear board. Contemporary ownership signature on title page, otherwise unmarked and sound. "In the following chapters I propose to give a...... Item #14486
Soft cover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the original pamphlet printed in London in 1743. Stapled binding, printed on faux-parchment. Clean, tight, unmarked. "Bitter vindication of [Knowles'] conduct in the disastrous Cartagena expedition, during which he served as surveyor and engineer of the British fleet" (Swann). Item #12679
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Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description..... Item #18158
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Sunning to top 1/8 ionch of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some chipping to the top of the spine, is lightly rubbed along the joints and at the corners, and..... Item #20666
New York: The Century Company. Title page undated; copyright 1924.462 pp, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Original pictorial blue cloth boards. Mile sunning to spine and top edge of front board, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and sound. A lively travel narrative, in which the author comments..... Item #20516
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Good dust jacket. First American edition (first published in Great Britain in 1954 under the title "Orellana"). xvii, 354 pp, with bibliography, map. Lower corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy, with review slip laid in. Dust jacket..... Item #14781
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 191 pp, illustrated with color photographs and line drawings. Brief gift inscription on front endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has minor soiling and one short tear to the rear panel. Account of..... Item #12592
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes (pp. 312; 331) bound in illustrated blue cloth, with more than 50 illustrations from photographs and 4 maps (3 folding). Light rubbing to extremities, spines toned (but fully legible). Internals clean and sound. Bookplate of S. James Tuffree on..... Item #14478
London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo, 112 pp, plus [13] blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations, including 2 folding panoramas, a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear..... Item #14710
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Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Xlvi, 383 pp, with a preface by the translator, A. Giraud. Dark pebbled cloth with five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Tight binding, light foxing, a few marginal pencil lines. First French edition of Sarmiento's most famous book, considered one of the..... Item #13461
Quito, Ecuador: Pan American Society of Tropical Research. Softcover. Fair. Undated, but c. 1945 (per OCLC). 90 pp, in original printed wrappers. Complete, but wappers heavily chipped and edgeworn, with some staining along the spine, small tears. Internals unmarked, paper tanned. A vocabulary of the Quichua (Quechua) language, with each..... Item #17419
Gainesville, FL: University Gallery, College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Exhibition catalogue. (20) pp, with introductory essay, map, b/w illustrations from photos of the textiles exhibited. As new, in original stapled wrappers. Item #14778
Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal, 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp, with color illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear. Item #15023
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in..... Item #20650
